These chronic pain conditions all create an incredible amount of not only physical stress but emotional stress. This extra stress leads to an overload of cortisol, which will eventually ramp up the entire nervous system and with time, affect the metabolic system. Cortisol, in the beginning, is our friend; Camarillo Functional Health help our body shift gears to handle the stress and/or pain. Over time, however, it will become inflammatory to not only the brain but will also cause a thinning of the mucosa in the stomach, causing a “leaky guy” type of scenario. This propels the vicious cycle of chronic pain, making the signals from the brain and nervous system more active and less inhibited. Symptoms of anxiety, depression, fatigue and anger diminish the body’s natural ability to deal with the chronic pain compromising some of its basic defense mechanisms and often times resulting in a suppressed immune system.

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Camarillo Functional Health Medicine is a 21st century approach to evaluating and managing patients suffering from chronic conditions. It is based upon identifying the underlying cause of the disease process or the chronic pain. Rather than treati...